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  1. Jun 27, 2024 · On July 5, 1994, Princeton graduate and entrepreneur Jeff Bezos founds Cadabra—a twist on the magic word “Abracadabra”—which is initially just an online bookstore run out of his garage in Bellevue,...

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  2. In March 2022, Amazon announced that they would be closing all 4-star stores, along with their Books and Pop Up stores, across the US and the UK, stating that they were refocusing on their grocery and fashion stores.

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Jeff_BezosJeff Bezos - Wikipedia

    In May 2016, Bezos sold slightly more than one million shares of his holdings in the company for $671 million, the largest sum he had ever raised from selling some of his Amazon stock. [66] On August 4, 2016, Bezos sold another million of his shares for $756.7 million. [ 67 ]

  4. Sep 9, 2024 · What is Amazon's company history and background? Amazon's history begins in 1994 when Jeff Bezos founded the company as an online bookstore. Over the years, it expanded to sell a wide variety of products and services, becoming the e-commerce giant we know today.

  5. May 16, 2022 · How much of Amazon does Jeff Bezos own? Previously owning 16 percent of the company, the Amazon employee sold $8.8 billion worth of his Amazon stock after stepping back as Amazon CEO to...

  6. History. 1994–2009. Jeff Bezos's home in Bellevue, Washington, where the company was founded in 1994. Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, by Jeff Bezos after he relocated from New York City to Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle, to operate an online bookstore.

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  8. Jul 2, 2021 · When Amazon was founded on July 5, 1994, as a website that only sold books, founder Jeff Bezos had a vision for the company's explosive growth and ecommerce domination.

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